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W. E.- DAVIS.

PILLOW SHAM HOLDER AND MOSQUITO BAR. No. 270,578. Patented Jan.16,1883.

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NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

\VIL LIAM E. DAVIS, OF MEADVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

PlLLOW-SHAM HOLDER AND MOSQUITO-BAR.

SPECIFICATION formingpart of Letters Patent No. 270,578, dated January 16, 1883.

Application filed November 527, 1882.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM EDWIN DAVIS, a citizen of the United States, residing at the city of Meadville, in the county of Crawford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Support for Pillow-Shams and Mosquito-Bars, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in devices for supporting pillow-Shams and mosquiito-bars on beds and keeping them in their places.

Figure 1 represents my device detached from the bedstead. Fig. 2 represents my device attached to a bedstead.

A A is a rod of wood or metal, divided in the middle thereof, and one-half of each cut away in such a manner that when the two pieces of the rod are put together, as shown in the drawings, they will make one continued 10d that in length equals the width of the bedstead. These rods are fastened together by two clips, E E, by which devices they may be drawn out or shortened, and thereby adjusted to the width of the bedstead, and when so adjusted can be fastened in their places by ascrew, M, which passes through one and into On this rod are two wire hows, B B,'bent in the form shown in drawings. The

ends of these bows pass through the rod A A, and are turned into eyes H H H H, in which two pieces of ribbon or tape, D I), are tied, and on these tapes or ribbons the pillow-Shams are pinned.

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Fig. 2 shows the support attached to a bedstead in the followingmanner, to wit: On the bed-post, at the head of the bed, are two clips or metal hooks, N N, made of thin metal, so that the hook will spring in or pinch the rod A A and hold it in its place. Ihe ends of the rod A A have supports of metal, made either square, hexagonal, or octagonal, as may be desired, as shown at U G; and when these supports are placed in the clips or hooks N N the rod A A is held in any desired position and prevented from rolling in the hooks by the spring of the same.

By this construction the rod A A, with the bows B B, may be turned up, as shown in Fig. 2, when the device is used to hold the pillowshams in their places, or' may be turned out nearly at right angles with the head-board L to support a mosquito-bar, and can be turned up or down, as may be desired, to raise or low er the bar.

What I claim as niyinvention is as follows, to wit:

The rod A A, constructed as described, in combination with the bows B B, the supports 0 O, and the hooks N N, constructed as described, for the purposes set forth.

WILLIAM EDWIN DAVIS.

Witnesses:

H. M. RICHMOND, CHAS. E. RICHMOND. 

